Visual Studio SP1 Fixed Bugs List

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Brian Harry gives an interesting perspective on why Microsoft will not publish the full lists of bugs that were fixed in VS SP1:

We looked at publishing the entire list but I think it was ultimately decided that the effort to turn it into a list that was useful (understandable, organized, etc.) was extremely high and that publishing the community prompted fixes is the best cost/benefit trade off.

That is really not an acceptable answer, as far as I am concerned. I can at a moment notice gives you a list of all the bugs that were fixed in NHibernate 1.2.Beta3. That is because NHibernate is using a magic system for Bug Tracking. This new approach means that bugs are no longer live in a coder's dream, or on a post-it note, but on a database. This radically new concept is still absent in Redmond, I am given to understand from the reply above.

More seriously, you ask me to download half a gig, give up my machine for an hour best case (days or worst if it is not) and you won't tell me what was fixed? To take a simple example, there are two performance related bugs in the list that they did published. Yet this release is supposed to:

Overall, Service Pack 1 offers customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Studio 2005

I am a developer, I don't deal with overalls. I want to see what was fixed, even if it means just having bullet points.